dinky notebook: Private Notes

dinky notebook is a bright, private notes app built like a pile of paper cards. Write a thought and it lands on the stack with a satisfying thump. Your notes live on your phone, and we never see them.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account, no sign-up, no cloud sync
• Your phone's own iCloud backup can include your notes, as it does for other apps. dinky never sends them anywhere
• No analytics and no ads
• Works fully offline. The only network call checks your purchase, through RevenueCat, with the App Store.
• App lock keeps the pile behind your face, fingerprint or passcode

A PILE, NOT FOLDERS
• Every note is a card in one chronological pile
• Add #hashtags and related cards gather into their own piles
• Search any word, then turn it into a pile with one tap

FEELS LIKE PAPER
• Vivid card stocks, letterpress type and paper textures
• Weighted motion and haptics as cards land and stack
• Long-press a card and drag it to the fire to burn it, with undo

COLORS FROM THE SKY
• The page behind your cards follows the sun through your day: warm at dawn, bright at midday, cool in the blue hour, deep at night
• Each card keeps the light it was written in, and with the unlock some card colors go on changing with the sun and moon
• Sunrise and sunset shift with the seasons, worked out on your phone from the date, the time, your time zone and your phone's region setting, with no location access
• At night the moon's phase tints the page, and solstices, equinoxes, full moons and meteor showers each get a quiet touch of their own

MAKE IT YOURS
• Seven sets of card colors. Six keep changing: Sorbet melts in the midday sun, Orchard ripens over a few weeks, Moss takes on dew overnight, Tide rises and falls with the moon
• Add your own pictures as card textures, softened to sit behind your words
• Choose a background for any card, and how often new cards get a special one
• Set haptics and appearance to suit you

YOURS TO KEEP
• Export every note as a Markdown archive and a JSON backup at any time
• Bring your JSON backup back in from Settings
• Share any card as text or an image, or copy it

PRICING
Your pile holds 10 cards. Burn a card to make room, or unlock dinky once for unlimited cards, every set of card colors and your own textures. One-time purchase, no subscription.

Questions or ideas: brendan@madewithbestpractice.com